Wearing number 16, Brad Staubitz played the position of right winger while playing for the Minnesota Wild during the 2010/2011 National Hockey League season. He earned a salary, reportedly, of $550,000. The total team salary for the Minnesota Wild was reportedly $56,035,000, so his salary was about 1.0% of the team's total reported payroll. The median salary for a player on the Minnesota Wild was $2,400,000. The average salary was $2,436,304. During the 71 games that he played that season, he scored 4 goals and had 5 assists - a total of 9 points. If we divide his reported salary by the number of games played, we find he earned $7,746.48 per game played. Brad Staubitz had a plus/minus of -5, 173 PIM (penalties in minutes), 0 PP (power play goals), 0 SH (short-handed goals), 1 GWG (game winning goals), and took 29 shots. He had a shooting percentage in the 2010/2011 season of 13.80%. If we want to evaluate his performance strictly on offense, we can divide his salary by the number of goals scored, as well as by the number of points (goals plus assists). His salary per goal scored was $137,500 and his salary per point was $61,111.

But then, there are taxes. Each hockey season is played during two calendar years, however, given an annual salary in the U.S. of $550,000 we can estimate that he would have to pay $167,784 in federal income taxes. That is about the same amount of tax as the tax paid by 21 median high school teachers, 23 median police officers, or 33 median fire fighters. After paying the IRS, he would have $382,216 left over. However, he may still have to use some of that money to pay state or city taxes as well.

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Author: Mark McCracken is a corporate trainer and author living in Higashi Osaka, Japan. He is the author of thousands of online articles as well as the Business English textbook, "25 Business Skills in English".